Tuvalu Makes $4M a Year

by jwdmsd1 • 6 years ago

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mckee1• 6 years ago

This led me to look up whether the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands), and therefore the British Government, received any money as a result of the .io domain.

It appears not. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io

[1] https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldtoday/writtens/11...

ForHackernews• 6 years ago

The British shouldn't get money, but the Chagosians forcibly evicted by the British probably deserve it more than most: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians#Eviction

Sad that they aren't seeing a penny, apparently.

s_dev• 6 years ago

It's amazing to me that British seem to get the full PR whack of that attrocity when it was all under the auspices of the US who paid the Brits to kick them out.

Kind of like how we all collectively forget that the Allies dropped the bomb on Japan and not just the "Americans".

basseq2• 6 years ago

To complete the title: "Tuvalu Makes $4M/yr from the .tv Domain".

From a December 2019 Washington Post article[1], there are ~500,000 registered .tv domains. The math on that works out to license fees of ~$8/domain ($4M/500k).

Considering .com is around $10/yr and .tv is around $30/yr[2], I'm interested to know where the incremental $12 goes ($30 - $8 - $10).

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2019/12/23/tuvalu...

[2] Namecheap

vmception3• 6 years ago

I'm interested to know where the incremental $12 goes

Uh everyone thats not the passive royalties holder? What answer do you really want?

basseq2• 6 years ago

Obviously. More to the point, what other incremental costs exist, if any, that would account for a $20 premium in price when cost appears to be going up by $8?

vmception3• 6 years ago

Isn’t it amazing that a country that’s merely a speck in ocean ... controls something so crucial to the internet world?!

I spit my tea out bahaha

But on a more "substantive" note, I think I did a case study 12 years ago about what an invasion of Tuvalu could look like - by private persons, and we mapped out their satellite and internet infrastructure for how to disable that. I had only ever heard of the country because of this TLD and looking it up.

spacemark• 6 years ago

Little recompense in the face of losing their nation to the carbon-emitting activities of large nations, who do not admit them as refugees.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/will-tuvalu-di...

lazyjones• 6 years ago

Why are you linking a 16 years old article that has been proven wrong? Tuvalu is not shrinking or sinking.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/fact-check-is-the-isl...

nicwolff• 6 years ago

Somewhere in a paper file I have the faxes that I exchanged with the office of the Prime Minister of Tuvalu back in about 1995 trying to explain the value of their TLD and how my (little) company could help them monetize it. Embarrassingly, I just got busy with client projects and ghosted them... It's nice to see that they are seeing substantial revenue from the domain now, and stand to see more when their agreement with Verisign expires next year.

anw• 6 years ago

Just curious, what strategies were you going to take to help them build it out, and just how much "build out" were you planning to do?

And just to be clear, I don't mean this in a sarcastic cynical way. I am genuinely curious on how people built out such platforms and surrounding infrastructure during the initial build-up of the WWW.

allard• 6 years ago

https://www.wired.com/1998/09/tuvalu/

Tuvalu Makes $4M a Year

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